If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.

If you don't have your unconscious working for you, you're really out of luck as an artist.

You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.

Sometimes audiences love you because they get to boo you.

I was looking at books and reading the indexes and finding a next book and reading that book, and then from that index ... It was a version of surfing the internet before the internet. I was surfing the New York Public Library. It was back when you had to fill out a form and put it in a chute.

I'm not trying to be a finger-wagger at society. I sort of start with myself.

I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They're bookish homeless people.